Konrad Wirnhier

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Konrad "Conny" Wirnhier (born July 7, 1937 in Pfarrkirchen ; † June 2, 2002 ) was a German sports shooter . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he became Olympic champion in the discipline of skeet shooting, a form of clay target shooting .

Life

The master gunsmith , who comes from Pfarrkirchen, has been running a hunting and sporting weapons store in Munich-Hochbrück since 1982, where the Olympic shooting range is also located. Wirnhier came from a gunsmith family and began his sporting career in 1959 with the target sport. He was a visionary and self-taught shotgun shooting. In addition to his numerous sporting successes, Wirnhier developed his own shooting technique in shotgun shooting, the so-called synchronous technique, during the 1960s. With this easy-to-learn elementary school for shotgun shooting, he laid a milestone in the training of beginners. Wirnhier thus built up the junior squad of sport shooters. His self-developed shotgun series for hunting and sport also brought him numerous successes. He died on June 2, 2002 after a long illness.

Sporting successes

  • 1961 to 1969 and 1972 to 1973 - German champion
  • 1965 - World Champion Santiago de Chile
  • 1967 - World Champion Bologna
  • 1968 - Olympic Games Bronze Medal Mexico City
  • 1968 - European champion
  • 1972 - Gold Medal Olympic Games Munich

Awards

  • His hometown named a street after him after his death.
  • The award ceremony area of ​​the Hochbrück Olympic shooting range is called Conny-Wirnhier-Platz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "100 years of the Wirnhier gunsmith family"
  2. ↑ Konrad-Wirnhier-Strasse
personal data
SURNAME Wirn here, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirn here, Conny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marksman
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Parish churches
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2002